Why does the ImportData example on page 24 of the Experimental Data Analyst manual only return what I typed in?

Mathematica 3.0 handles escaped end-of-line characters differently from Mathematica 2.2. The Experimental Data Analyst Master.m contains several of these end-of-line characters that work fine under 2.2 but are incompatible with 3.0. The presence of these characters interferes with the loading of the EDA`ImportExport` package that contains the definitions for ImportData. A Mathematica 3.0 compatible Master.m can be obtained from the following URL.

http://support.wolfram.com/archive/applicationpacks/files/Master.m

First, rename the current Experimental Data Analyst Master.m file (to Masterold.m, for example). Then download the above file and place it in the main Experimental Data Analyst directory. When this new file is in place, you should be able to use the ImportData function after evaluating the following command.

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